Graven Images: New England Stonecarving and Its Symbols, 1650-1815 (New Preface in the 1999 Edition.)

Title: Graven Images: New England Stonecarving and Its Symbols, 1650-1815 (New Preface in the 1999 Edition.)
Author: Allen Ludwig
H: 1707346
ISBN: 9780819560407
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Published: 2000
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Edition: 0003-Revised
Number of Pages: 532
Section: Art | American | General
Condition Note: Clean, unmarked copy with some edge wear. Good binding. Dust jacket included if issued with one. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.
Publisher Description:

The classic study of gravestone art

In Puritan New England, with its abiding concern for things not of this world and its distrust of forms and ceremonies, one art flourished: the symbolic art of mortuary monument stonecarvers. This carefully researched, beautifully illustrated work was the first to consider this art in depth as a meaningful aesthetic-spiritual expression. It is reissued for today's readers, with a new preface outlining changes in the field since the book appeared in 1966.